If they’re able to track “violators” who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.
The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month, Joe Lauria reports.
The U.S. is trying to extradite Julian Assange to stand trial for espionage, but even though sedition is no longer on the books, that’s what the U.S. is really charging him with, says Joe Lauria.
Pepe Escobar looks at a frightening future that might follow the already terrifying Covid-19 global outbreak.
Trump’s Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.
With the U.S. and OAS looking the other way, protesters have been subjected to brutally violent repression, Ben Norton reports.
Alka Kurian reports on a striking act of resistance in a patriarchal country where women – but particularly Muslim women – have historically had their rights denied.
In 2017, when the FBI hailed the civil rights leader for PR reasons in a tweet, Ben Norton issued a reminder about the agency’s ugly history.
The former FBI director knew exactly what his agency had on Carter Page and, contrary his assertion, it’s incredibly easy to get a FISA warrant.
The cases concern everything from firing people who are LGBTQ, to abortion restrictions that disproportionately affect low-income women, to deportations, to the scope of the Second Amendment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
